Quotes About Being Happy

They say happiness is nothing but a state of mind and I couldn't agree more. Happiness is what all of us strive for. Whether you're wondering about how to be happy in a relationship or all the time, success, money and fame, all take a backseat when it comes to happiness. Given below are a few quotes about being happy in love or otherwise (if you're one of those people that have been unlucky in love, then not to worry for there are tons of being single quotes too!).

Happy Life Quotes

"The really happy person is one who can enjoy the scenery when on a detour." - Anonymous

"Happiness is not having what you want. It is wanting what you have." - Rabbi Hyman Schachtel

"Being happy doesn't mean that everything is perfect. It means that you've decided to look beyond the imperfections." - Anonymous

"The Constitution only guarantees the American people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself." - Benjamin Franklin

"Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence" - Aristotle

"Those who can laugh without cause have either found the true meaning of happiness or have gone stark raving mad!" - Norm Papernick

"Why not seize the pleasure at once? How often is happiness destroyed by preparation. Foolish preparation?" - Jane Austen

"Most people would rather be certain they're miserable, than risk being happy." - Robert Anthony

"Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful." - Herman Cain

"Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy." - Anne Frank

Being Happy With Someone

"Each moment of a happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life" - Aphra Behn

"There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved." - George Sand

"The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved - loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves." - Victor Hugo

"To be happy with a man you must understand him a lot and love him a little. To be happy with a woman you must love her a lot and not try to understand her at all." - Helen Rowland

"Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go." - Oscar Wilde

"The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happily married life!" - Oscar Wilde

"Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own." - Robert Heinlein

"People love others not for who they are but for how they make them feel" - Irwin Federman

"For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul." - Judy Garland

"Love is when the other person's happiness is more important than your own." - H. Jackson Brown

"There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will." - Epictetus

"The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his feet." - James Openheim

"Happiness is not in our circumstance but in ourselves. It is not something we see, like a rainbow, or feel, like the heat of a fire. Happiness is something we are." - John B. Sheerin

"Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it." - Jacques Prévert

"What a wonderful life I've had! I only wish I'd realized it sooner." - Colette

"Each morning when I open my eyes I say to myself: I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it." - Groucho Marx

"The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for." - Allan K. Chalmers

"If only we'd stop trying to be happy we could have a pretty good time." - Edith Wharton

"The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be." - Marcel Pagnol

"A great obstacle to happiness is to anticipate too great a happiness." - Fontenelle

"Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared." - The Buddha

At the end of the day, you need to understand that no matter how many inspirational quotes you read or how many people tell you and push you towards positive thinking, being happy is, as mentioned before, a state of mind that you choose for yourself. There really is no locked up secret of happiness and the above quotes are really the best quotes that can prove this!